I have a version of Git (1.9.3) already installed on my computer at /usr/bin. This version was installed (if I remember correctly) by XCode. I would like to install 2.2.1 (the download version from ...

Sometimes it is helpful to call clear twice to add some padding so that scrolling up or down will allow us to look at the output of previous commands easier, e.g. I can segregate compiler output by ...

I would like to make a permanent ssh connection between my computer and the server at work. meaning whenever the computer at work is on the connection to the server should be established.
Therefore, ...

I'm quite new to developing under OSX and assigned some aliases and other preferences in the ~/.profile initially, however it got quite big and messy after a while because I had a lot of Environment ...

I would like to disable ./bashrc with the command bash --norc when opening a session on the KDE Destop enviroment.
but I dont really understand where to place it, if on the startkde, Xsession or where ...

I use a bunch of different aix machines at work and need to share users with co-workers.
To make my life easier but not bother others with my customizations, I have created a .bashrc file that I copy ...

bash won't source files from an login terminal unless I manually run bash from a terminal, I have bash (and not sh or dash). When I source a file, it returs errors (like "syntax error near unexpected ...

I can bounce between apps in Chrome OS by pressing alt-N, where N is the position of my app on the status bar. Useful!
But when I'm in the bash shell of my Nitrous.io box, pressing alt-N to bounce to ...

I'd like to be able to modify ssh_config aliases based on my current IP address.
I have a laptop which I carry around from network to network, and a camera which I do the same with. I have setup the ...

Inside my .bashrc, I'm doing a bunch of magic that causes problems when I'm trying to do an scp. The solution I've been going with is to manually ssh to the target machine, disable my .bashrc, do the ...

The issue is that, if I update PS1 in bashrc, I see that by default the cursor gets placed at column 0 instead of after the prompt, and if I type anything it starts overwriting the prompt.
I tested ...

I'd like to fix this frequent problem where the shell on a remote server thinks my terminal's backspace key is ^? and sometimes it thinks it is ^H, and happens to be incorrect and outputs the wrong ...

I'd like to source my .bash_profile (or maybe some other file) whenever I switch to superuser. (.bash_profile is the login rc on Mac OS X, .bashrc is the non-login script, and .profile is a login rc ...

I am setting up my default .bashrc on my Ubuntu machine that I will soon be adding more and more users to.
One command that users will have access to is mysql, logging them into the SQL system on the ...

I've been having an issue with getting my .profile to be sourced when SSHing into an Ubuntu 12.04 server instance. My .bashrc does the following towards the end:
if [[ "$TERM" != "screen-256color" ]]
...

As im currently experimenting with new stuff in my prompt i need a way to tell what the performance impact is.
How can i monitor how long it takes to render my prompt and the time it takes to source ...

I have created a custom .vimrc and .bashrc in my local machine.
Also I have a couple of vim plugins that I find useful. Now I ssh remote servers to work very frequently. But each time in order to work ...

It seems to me that every Linux distro that I SSH into or use locally (Mostly RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu machines) have a different idea about which of .bashrc and .bash_profile to run when I log ...